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It’s still your home even if it’s just for a vacation. Always your home. My heart swells with his messages to me.It’s truly hard for me to stay mad at him. As crazy scary as my father can be, his love for me is truly unconditional.

I love you, Daddy.

I love you, Princess.

Chapter Ten

Ian

“You,” I snapped, seeing the little prick from the club who claimed Calista belonged to him as he entered my room with several items on a cart.

I wouldn’t trust this fucker with mopping the floor, let alone my well-being. “Um, sucks to be you right now,” he says with a smirk—that kind of dark, sinister grin that holds pure malice behind it.

“Keep that up and you’ll be sucking on your last breath,” I warn the arrogant punk. I might be too weak to take on someone larger, but this pussy will be light work.

“I wouldn’t threaten me with the position you’re in.” He chuckles while lifting up a needle and then a bottle. “Fucking hilarious that you got Callie fired. Did she tell you that she only fucked you because I slipped her a little something in her drink? Her legs should have opened up for me, not you.” He inserts the needle into the bottle and then pulls it out.

Multiple levels of rage fill my gut. “Pencil-dick rapist. You shouldn’t have told me that.”

“It’s time for you to get your meds, Mr. MacNamara.”

“Get that needle away from my brother, or I’ll shove it through your eye,” Jack says, inching closer to him. He sets it on the cart next to him. “You’re not supposed to be in here.”

“Well, someone needs to replace Callie since he got her fired,” he huffs. The anger in his voice tells me he’s still interested in getting to her.

“You’ll stay the fuck away from her.”

“You can’t tell me what to do, and I sure as fuck won’t give up on Callie just because she got her cherry popped by someone else.”

“Do yourself a favor, and get the fuck out of my brother’s room.”

“That’s fine. Enjoy the pain. I’ll head over to Callie’s soon and let her know I’m there for her.” He chuckles as he pushes the cart out of the room.

Once he’s gone, Jack checks the door, and then says, “We’re getting the fuck out of here. I don’t like that bastard or the doctor either. Everything’s running smoothly—we’ve already transferred information to our doctors, and then we’ll have the hospital records wiped clean.”

“Have you seen Calista?”

“Yes, and she was with her bodyguard.”

“Bodyguard?”

“From the looks of it, she didn’t want him around, but it was at her dad’s request. I caught her crying.”

“Yeah, well, it seems I just got her fired.”

“That’s what she implied when she cursed me out.”

“Damn, I love her.” I don’t even realize that I’ve just let that slip, but the look on my brother’s face tells me I said that out loud.

“I’m not knocking anything. I might not trust everything yet, but we all have been a bit crazy when it comes to our women.”

“Yes, we are, and I’ve been a bit distrustful of all of them.”

“That’s for sure,” he scoffs.

I plan to apologize to Claudia, who I was outright rude to, whereas with Nora, I’d just kept my reservations to myself until I saw how wonderful they both were.

“So what’s the plan? How long until we get the fuck out of here?”